Cradleboard

Show a Native American (Ute) toy cradleboard with a doll. The cradleboard is buckskin wrapped around a board and is decorated with fringe, multi-color beadwork sewn on with lazy stitch. The doll's head is possibly made of wood painted a medium brown and is nestled in a woven light green and cream colored mandras cloth. Attached next to the doll is a bead covered rabbits foot.

Date

[between 1880 and 1900]

Notes

(The top center design incorporates six elongated triangles, green, outlined in red on blue ground.) At either end of the horseshoe the beadwork terminates in two horizontal rows of yellow beads, followed by three inverted triangles on either side (the two outside are solid blue, while the inner is translucent green outlined in yellow.) There are some beads missing from the far right blue triangle. There is a single vertical row of beadwork extending from the top of the doll's hood (where it meets the board) up to the lower edge of the horseshoe design (directly below the six triangles on blue ground design indicated above). The colors used on this strip are blue, yellow and translucent red. There is a central blue diamond w/yellow at the corners, and a red square outlined in blue above and below this.; Accession ID: E.1894; History Colorado.; Curatorial note supplied by History Colorado: Toy cradleboard and doll, buckskin covered board, fringed at upper back. Multi-color beadwork at top of board in horseshoe shape, around edge of hood, which is made of sticks woven together with woolen thread. Also beadwork across chest band, and on flap of buckskin (covering frontal lacing) that runs down the length of the body.; Doll's head is nestled in a woven madras/line cloth, light green and cream colored. Beadwork on chedt[sic] band: three rows lazy stitch, white ground, with central diamond shape and arrows extending off to right and left.; It also has dangling beaded strings extending off the sides and bottom. There are two at the bottom that are light blue and end in pink, and three at either side that are light blue, pink and dark blue. (Total of eight.) Beadwork on flap extending down length of body:flap is tied to buckskin with thongs, three on either side, is cut so it narrows at the toe, and is trimmed in pastel yellow and pink beads.; Object ID: E.1894.178; Scanned image from loaned transparency including Object ID.; Title supplied.; To the right of the doll is a bead covered (translucent red with blue, yellow and green stripes) rabbit's foot with four strand of dangling beadwork, each strand alternating translucent green and yellow beads. To left of doll is a beaded fetish, made of buckskin and diamond shaped, sparsely beaded on surface with singularly-stitched translucent green and light blue beads.; R7200200270